Show PRAISE HIM A LITTLE I I BREAK THE I John had chang changed d. d I He had lost much of ot the tho mental lightness light light- n ness neil ri and frivolity that Mary farY had loved He had become a Do stolid moody sort about the house and of ot late Inte had spent pent more time away than It seemed ho he should I He had become too matter of ot fact tact and smiled so Infrequently that Mary sometimes sometime some somo times time wondered If Jt ho he had forgotten how Mary Mury WAS worried and unhappy about the thing thinS Sho She wondered if It If after all married life didn't get Ket a a. bit too dull She Sho thought rather enviously en of ot tho the thod d days day y when John used 3 J to como come bounding up the front steps tep and with an enthusiastic neti astle word or two to her mother make for tor the library where ho knew she sha would be And then Marys Mary's slat slater sister r. r came camo for tor a B. visit M ry ulster sister was one ot those dizzy little folk talk gAY ay and tore forever er glad She he noticed the first tint day o of her visit J 1 that J John hn had cele selected a n. tie tic of ot wonder wonderful ful tone for his hIs' brown bron suit and she told hInt him so 1 John lohn really realty grinned across the table at at her THE Pretty soon she he was telling him S that she h liked d the way he brushed brush d his hair straight back that it gave gao his for forehead he d a n good line and ami a n few days later ter she aho noticed Id that John brought Ice cream home for dinner without being told to and the little sister not only thought It wa was kind but told John so John blossomed under the tho treatment His old gayety and spontaneity re ro- ro turned Verily he was a D. different man And then Mary realized where her mistake hn had J boon been She had hid forgotten to praise John John John- she John sho ho had forgotten that he ho even een needed to bo be complimented r Ml Mary hadn't realized that beingman being being- a aman anina man nina doesn't mako maka a Do sensitive ival enjoy being taken for granted Sho She hadn't realized that souls wear v r l neither petticoats nor trousers and that masculine mas runs culine- culine or feminine folks are zue essentially the th J same e. e S |